Slip



June 16, 1931 E, MCQ S N 1,810,796

SLIP

Filed July 31, 1928 4 vwmlaq Z4 at Patented June 16, 19 31 Tss UNITED STA PATENT OFFICE ELIZABETH VLICC, STONE, OF ROSSLYN, 'VIRGINIA.

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Application filed July 31; 1928. Serial No. 296,432.

' '10 parency at the skirt portion thereof without increasing the amount of material employed inthe making of the slip. 'The present invention has been designed to provide a slip in which there is no bulging of seams, which 15 has an unbroken external contour, which has greater freedom of movement than is ordinarily possible with conventional garments of this type, which is made up of less material than ordinarily employed in such gar- 2 ments, and which is provided with an effective non-transparent skirt portion.

Objects of my invention are: to provide a novel and improved slip having a fold portion rendering the same non-transparent; to

25 provide a slip having a non-transparent fold portion cut from the length of material from which the garment is made; to provide a slip having a plural ply fold portion formed integral with the body portion of the slip; to 30 providea novel and improved method of making such a slip; and generally to provide an improved slip garment having graceful lines and provided with a non-transparent portion of plural ply thickness and decreasing the material ordinarily employed, without causing any bulging ofthe garment in the seams.

With these general objects in view and such others as will be apparent from the description, my invention resides in the novel method, combination, construction and operation of the structure as shown and described in the accompanying drawings and in this specification, wherein one practical, 45? physical embodment of the principles of the invention is set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front perspective of a slip constructed in accordance with the principles of the invention. .5 Figure 2 is a rear elevation thereof.

:Figure 3 is'a transverse section on .the line 33 of Figure 2. V

Figure 4 is a transverse section on theline H of Figure 2. l v Figure 5 is a fragmentary vertical section on the line 55 of Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a plan view of a strip of material from which the slip is formed;

In forming slips in accordance with the principles of my invention, a substantially rectangular piece of the desired fabric is cut to a length approximately, but not quite, three times the desired width of the garment. One such piece of material is shown at 10 in Figure 6.. One of the side edges 11 of the strip forms the top of the slip, while the other side edge 12 forms the bottom ofthe slip;

After the fabric 10 has been out in this manner, 1t is folded upon itself from one end along a line 13 to the desired overall width of the completed garment, thereby forming a front portion 14 and a rear portion 15 with the rear portion 15 comprising the infolded section of the fabric blank. The remaining section generally designated as at 16 is then cut inwardly along the line 17 from the top edge of the 'garmentto exactly half the length of the material and is then folded inwardly upon itself along the line of fold 18 to form a double 19 (1.20 P y P 3 having-panels I The meeting edges ofthe front and rear 2 sections 14 and 15 are stitched together in any suitable manner downwardly from the top edge 11 of the fabric to the half way point of the length of fabric, forming an upper side edge'seam 21. The double ply section comprising the panels 19 and 20 is then folded over upon the back portion 15 along the line of fold 22, which line, of fold is in continuation of the seam 21. Before folding over this last named section, the superposed outer edges 23 and 24 of the panels 19 and 20 are stitched together in any suitable manner, but theopposite free side edge of the down turned panel'19 is left free from any connection with r the bottom panel'f20, so that as the rear panel portion is turned-over upon the rear portion 15,-there will be no outstanding edge sections and by reasons of the free edge con-- struction below the waist line, there will be great freedom of movement'permitted in the garment.

The bottom edges of the panels 19 and 20 are stitched together and the fold 18 is stitched to the outer face of'the rear portion 15 along the line as shown in Figures 2 and 5. This disposes the seam 26 comprising. the stitched edges 23 and 24 of the panels 19 and 20 slightly inwardly of one side of the garment, as best shown in Figure2.

The usual shoulder straps 27 and the draw ribbon 28 are provided in the conventional,

manner of all such garments and these last named elements comprise no part of my 1nvention. From an inspectlonof F1gure3 1n 1 connection with Figure 4 it will be seen that the back of the base portion, which triple thickness is effective in rendering the garment non-transparent.

An lllSPGCtlOl'l' of Figure a shows that 1n the skirt portion of the garment, at each side thereof, provision is made for freedom of movement, due to that fact that the garment is not sewn together at the sides. It is ob vious that any conventional practice may be followed in the matter of adjusting the bust portion of the garment to meet individual re quirements without departing in any way from the scope of the invention.

l/Vhile I have illustrated and described certain construction of article and method of making the same, I desire it to be understood that the invention is not to be limited specifically thereto, but that any desired changes and modifications may be made as will fall within the scope of the invention as claimed.

1 claim:

1. Themethod of making a slip whichconr prises folding a portion of a substantially rectangular piece of material upon itself to form a front and rear portion, cutting the material inwardly from one edge along the folded over free edge to a point midway between the top and bottom, folding the re-. maining free section of the material upon,1t-'

self to provide a two plypanehand foldtom edge, folding over the two ply panel portion upon the rear face of said rear portion, and uniting the upper edge of said two ply portion to the adjacent face of said rear portion.

' 3. The method of making a slip which comprises folding a rectangular piece of material upon itself'along a line of fold extenda ing parallel with the end edges of the piece whereby to form a front portion anda folded rear portioncomprising substantially twothirds of the length of the material, cutting the unfolded section of the material inwardly from oneedge along the adjacent free edge of said folded rear portion to the median line of the piece, folding the free portion of said 7 section upon itself, and subsequently folding said last named folded section inwardly over said rear portion to form the garment.

I 4:. A slip having a substantially tubular bust portion, a substantially tubular skirt portion open at one side edge thereof, and a double ply panel section over the rear skirt portion thereof and having its upper edge stitched to the rear portion along the transverse median line thereof, all of said bust and skirt portions and panel'sections being into gral.

5. A one piece slip consisting of a substantially rectangular length of material having a front portion, a back portion, and a shadow proofing portion allof substantially equal width, said back portion being infolded over the front portion to provide an unseamed side, and the shadow proofing port-ion being folded over the infolded back portion; said length of material having a cut extending from the slip top substantially midway to its bottom along the line of fold between said front portion and shadow proofing portion, said shadow proofing portion being doubled on itself toward the slip bottom, means uniting the coextensive side edges of said front and said;back portions, means uniting the coextensive doubled edges of-the shadow proof-- ing portiomand means connecting said back portion and said shadow proofing portion along .the line of fold of the latter transversely of the slip.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ELIZABETH MoO. "STONE.

ing over the two ply panel section upon the r exterior of the infolded rear portionto form a slip.

- 2. The method of making a slip whichcomprises cutting a rectangular piece of material inwardly from one edge to a point midway between the opposite edges and folding.

to forma two ply panel portion, folding the remaining portion of the materialupon itself to provide an unbroken front and rear portion for the garment, uniting the meeting edges of said folded section from the top edge to a pointmidWay between the top and bot- 

